The Adventures of Champion Season 1

(1955) September - March | # of Episodes : 26

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Series Details

Seasons: 1

Total Episodes: 26

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Networks: CBS

Status: Ended

First Air Date: Sep 23, 1955

Recent Air Date: Mar 3, 1956

Run Time: m

In Production: No

Original Language: English

Age Rating: NR

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Production Companies: Flying 'A' Productions

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Champion

Champion, the Wonder Horse

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Blaze

Rebel, the Dog

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Episodes

Episode 1

23 September 1955 - The Saddle Tramp

A down-on-luck prospector and spinner of tall tales helps Ricky capture a gang of rustlers.

Episode 2

30 September 1955 - Crossroad Trail

A young ranch hand nearly falls in with bad companions until Ricky is blinded from a fall sustained when fleeing the two men and needs his assistance.

Episode 3

07 October 1955 - Salted Ground

Ricky and Sandy try to prevent a gullible general store owner from being fleeced by a couple of con men trying to sell a salted mine.

Episode 4

15 October 1955 - The Medicine Man Mystery

Sandy investigates Ricky's wild tale of a medicine show operator who he saw stuff a small boy into a box. The Norths learn that Doc Terwilliger, the show's owner, is a ventriloquist who uses his dummy, Wilbur, to draw in crowds. A trio of jewel thieves find Wilbur fascinating as well, since their leader hid the gems from his latest heist in the dummy's stomach.

Episode 5

22 October 1955 - Lost River

In a drought, Ricky and Sandy search for a legendary lost river. Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon, Edna Holland.

Episode 6

29 October 1955 - Renegade Stallion

The sheriff blames Champion for the trampling of a prospector. Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon, Francis McDonald, William Tannen, Chris Alcaide, Ewing Mitchell, Rex Lease.

Episode 7

05 November 1955 - Canyon of Wanted Men

A horse trader tries to dupe Sandy North. Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon, George J. Lewis.

Episode 8

08 November 1955 - Challenge of the West

Ricky tries to prove that an outlaw's son wasn't responsible for a robbery at Sandy's ranch.

Episode 9

15 November 1955 - The Outlaw's Secret

A thief confesses to a stage robbery---and implicates a banker. Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon, Howard J. Negley, Leonard Penn.

Episode 10

22 November 1955 - Hangman's Noose

When a crooked ranch foreman discovers oil on a neighboring spread, he plots with a businessman to grab the property by killing one rancher and framing the other for the crime. When Ricky stumbles upon a pair of oil-soaked boots near the murder scene, he becomes the target for the real killers.

Episode 11

29 November 1955 - King of the Rodeo

Ricky and Sandy try to rescue Champ from a carnival owner who has captured the horse and uses him as an attraction, offering a large prize to anyone who can ride him.

Episode 12

06 December 1955 - A Bugle for Ricky

Ricky soon finds a use for his new musical instrument - signaling for help using a cavalry bugle call when he is trapped in a barn by outlaws.

Episode 13

13 December 1955 - The Stone Heart

Ricky tries to help a wounded prisoner who was forced to participate in a jail break and becomes the target of the rest of the gang of counterfeiters.

Episode 14

20 December 1955 - The Deer Hunters

Ricky tries to rescue a fawn from a snare and incurs the trappers' wrath. The men are trying to provide meat for a railroad construction crew but are wiping out the native game in the process. Ricky, Sandy and an Eastern conservationist try to convince the railroad construction boss to find a new source of meat for his men.

Episode 15

27 December 1955 - The Golden Hoax

When Champion discovers that a gang of stagecoach robbers stash their loot in an abandoned mineshaft, Ricky and Sandy try to apprehend the gang.

Episode 16

03 January 1956 - Johnny, Hands Up

Ricky and Sandy come to the assistance of a young lawman who is being held responsible for the mistakes of his predecessor.

Episode 17

10 January 1956 - Black Kachina

An evil medicine man holds the tribe's chief captive while plotting a new Indian war against the territory's ranchers.

Episode 18

17 January 1956 - Mystery Mountain

When a naive Easterner is duped into performing gold assays for a swindler, Ricky and Sandy come to the rescue.

Episode 19

26 January 1956 - Rails West

Ricky and Sandy persuade a railroad line to bypass the range where Champion and his remuda live, but removing prospectors who try to claim the same valley after stumbling onto what they think is gold-bearing rock proves a tougher nut to crack.

Episode 20

02 February 1956 - The Real Unfriendly Ghost

Ricky and Sandy search for a missing politician in a ghost town and encounter one eccentric living resident and, apparently, a lively dead one, too.

Episode 21

13 February 1956 - Andrew and the Deadly Double

Mary Jane, Ricky's young neighbor, is upset when she learns that Uncle Andrew, her newly appointed guardian, plans to sell the ranch she lives on and force her to move East with him. While Ricky and Sandy try to convince the Easterner of the virtues of ranch life, Mary Jane learns that the man is an impostor and is taken captive by a crooked land-grabbing lawyer.

Episode 22

14 February 1956 - Bad Men of the Valley

An ex-convict trying to go straight and his pretty wife buy the ranch next to the North's. He has a chance meeting with his former gang members who threaten his wife if he doesn't cooperate with their bank robbing scheme. Ricky, Champ and Rebel help the young man bring his former confederates to justice.

Episode 23

24 February 1956 - The Return of Red Cloud

When a Indian chief who has just returned to his tribe is framed for murder, Ricky and Sandy try to prove his innocence before this followers go on the warpath.

Episode 24

27 February 1956 - Brand of the Lawless

An outlaw who has escaped from custody joins his old gang and plans his next robbery - a rich bank that's not too far away. With a posse pursuing them, the gang leader decides to pick up a grubstake from his law-abiding sister by blackmailing her.

Episode 25

03 March 1956 - The Die-Hards

Rebel is hurt by a Porcupine and Ricky gets help for him from a new Southern Doctor who just arrived in town. However, persistent prejudices for Southerners that linger long after the civil war, engender hatred and turmoil for the Doctor and his Wife to endure until the prejudiced perpetrator's gunshot wound is treated by the doctor.

Episode 26

03 March 1956 - Calhoun Rides Again

An old cowboy returns to visit Ricky and Sandy and help them round up a gang of desperadoes.

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